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Can you assist with the core beliefs of
Islam, Judaism and Christianity? I’m also looking to compare whether they are
similar or different.

A:
Islam started with Adam, and the faith is the same through Noah, Abraham, and
the Patriarchs. Christianity, Judaism and Islam are allegedly all based on the
Bible and the Law of God. Yet, they are all so hopelessly divided as to the
meaning and authenticity of it. We are staring in the face of WWIII.

The
Dead Sea Scrolls destroy the Islamic claim that the original Bible has been
lost. The forgeries and mistranslations in the KJV do not help the argument
though. Judaism is a post-Temple period misconstruction based on tradition,
which makes the Bible into a farce and often says the opposite of what the
Bible actually does say. The sun and mystery cults and Gnosticism have
corrupted Christianity. The errors of modern Islam have destroyed the
relationship of the Bible and the Koran. Islam was pure only in the prophet
Muhammad and the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs. It was corrupted after that.

Now that some of the Dead
Sea Scrolls have finally been released to the public, at least a
part of Christianity has modified various doctrines or in some cases,
solidified long-held teachings when evidence was revealed which documented
certain beliefs. Do we see this happening within either Islam or Judaism?

A: No,
strange as it may seem, they are all trying to studiously ignore the scrolls.
Islam has claimed for centuries that they do not have to keep the Law, as explained
in the Bible, because it was not the same text as in the time of the Prophets
and the Temple.

Yet,
now that we have the proof, they try to ignore the fact that the DSS show we
have an exact version with a few minor corrections that have to be made because
rabbinical Judaism altered the text after the fall of the Temple (e.g. Deut.
32:8 for one). Talmudic Judaism distorts the Bible as well, so they are blind
and deliberately so.

I was told that the three great
religions of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are all of a monotheistic
structure. Is this true, and could you explain?

A:
The three religions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism are all based on the
same faith and as such are monotheist. Rational Theism, The Bible, and the
three faiths that spring from them are essentially Monotheist.

The
problem arises when we see the intrusion of the sun cults and the pagan structure of the Triune God enter the systems. Christianity,
in its triune system, is not monotheist. Islam, when it forms triune systems,
around say Ali, is also not Monotheist.

The
structure of monotheism stems from the existence of one True God, who alone is
immortal and within whose will all beings exist and operate. That is monotheism
and that is the Bible Structure. This topic is covered in the work God Revealed Chapter 1 Ancient
Monotheism (No. G1).

Trinitarian/Unitarian

What are some of the lesser known
non-Trinitarian churches? What are their other beliefs? Where are they headquartered?

A:
The Christian Church was divided into two groups, The Unitarians and the
Trinitarians from the fourth century councils. In the first two centuries,
everyone was a Unitarian believing Christ was the Great Angel of the OT.
Trinitarians did not exist in Christianity. They were pagans in Rome worshipping Jupiter,
Juno, and Minerva the Immaculate Virgin.

The
Binitarian system of the worship of the god Attis entered Christianity from Rome and also of Adonis
from the east. It was adopted as Modalism in the third century and became
Binitarianism at Nicaea
in 325 in the Fourth century. After the Trinity was adopted from Constantinople in 381, the faith split again. It split
over the introduction of Easter in the Second century. Look at the paper The Quartodeciman
Disputes (No. 277)andThe Origins of Christmas
and Easter (No. 235).

The
Unitarians were at war with the Trinitarians for some centuries. Look at the
paper The
Unitarian/Trinitarian Wars (No. 268).
The Unitarians were also Sabbath-keepers. They were erroneously termed Arians.
The family of Muhammad was of this Sabbatarian lineage.

In
the fourth century, the AbyssinianChurch sent their
archbishop Mueses to China
via India.
He established the Christians in China, who were Unitarian
Sabbath-keeping. Many of these people also formed among the trade alliances of
the Arabs who became Muslims. These became known as the Hue Hue. The details
are in the paper General Distribution of
the Sabbath-keeping Churches (No. 122).
The Sabbatarians are still in China
and there are about a million of them. Many have developed a heretical
Sabellianism and now differ from the original doctrines. Some of them consider
Jesus is God and Father.

This
radical Unitarian system denies the pre-existence of Christ and, in historical
terms, is a relatively recent innovation. Islam also developed this idea fairly
early. It is not the original Unitarian, or even Islamic doctrines, nor is that
of Biblical Judaism regarding the Messiah. The history of what happened to the
Church in Transylvania is found in the work by
Rabbi Samuel Kohn, The Sabbatarians in
Transylvania, CCG Publishing, USA, 1998.Look also at the paper The Pre-Existence of Jesus Christ
(No. 243)for other details and the creed of the
Goths.

Up
until the last few decades, all the Sabbath-keeping Churches were
non-Trinitarians. The SDAs became Trinitarians, formally as late as 1978. The
WCG in 1993/4 and the Church of God (SD) at Denver became Binitarian in 1995. The other US conference
became ditheist.

The
other Churches of God range from Trinitarian, to Binitarians, to Ditheists.
One, the ChristianChurches of God, is
original Unitarian holding the first century beliefs. The Unitarians
Universalists are what is termed radical Unitarians, as are the Churches of God
General Conference in Georgia.

I have heard of Arianism, but whatever
is Semi-Arianism, which I see mentioned only rarely?

A:
The term Arianism is used to cover the Unitarian structure that acknowledges
the pre-existence of Christ and attempts to confine it to the period of Arius,
presbyter of Alexandria, and the conflicts that were centred around the Council
of Nicaea in 325.

Would you
please clarify some confusion regarding the identity of the Arians that arises
when studying the disputes between the factions of the Unitarians/Arians and
the Athanasians/Trinitarians?

A:
The confusion is deliberately introduced by Trinitarians to make it appear that
the doctrine of Unitarianism was not that of the early Church, but that it
originated with Arius who was a presbyter in Alexandria. Sometimes, it is referred to also
as Eusebianism, as Eusebius was far senior to Arius. Arius was not actually at Nicaea, only being
summoned when necessary, as its adviser on logic.

There
were also a number of other bishops there who had all been trained by Lucian of
Antioch, the great Church theologian of the end of the third and beginning of
the fourth century. The fact of the matter is, that
Arius was merely one of a long line of people, from Christ and the Apostles,
who were all Unitarians. Trinitarianism was a product of the Fourth Century.

So
they had to confuse the issue with propaganda and labelled it as Arianism. And
they labelled it a heresy when, in fact, all the Ante-Nicene fathers were
Unitarians for the first two hundred years of the faith.

Was the consolidation of the amulets
into a single calf in any way prophetic of a future consolidation of religions
into one single unified religion? We have heard of mergers lately between
several denominations such as the Lutherans with the Catholics. Will this
continue as may have been prophesied with the Golden Calf?

A:
You are probably right. The Bible says it is Mystery, Babylon the Great, Mother of Harlots. Thus,
the religious whore of the Mystery cults, of which the Golden Calf was
symbolic, is all part of the same system. They all unite to fight against the
Messiah but are themselves destroyed by the Beast in the last days. Israel was made
to eat the gold of the calf by means of drinking the gold water in which it was
mixed. That too was prophecy.

Islam

If I understand correctly, the Muslims
worship Allah. Is this their only God and if so, how did they get this name for
Him?

A: The
Arabic name, “Allah' ” is derived from Eastern Aramaic or Chaldean, “Elahh.” It
is singular and admits of no plurality. He is the One True God of the Bible,
“Eloah.” The singular form “Eloah” and the Chaldean “Elahh” become the plural
form “Elohim” in the Hebrew and “Elahhin” in the Chaldee.

“Elohim”
can be singular in usage and then is used to refer to “one of the Elohim.”
Where it is used in the case of “Eloah” it is usually “ha Elohim” or “The
Elohim” or “The God.” In Greek, this practice continued in the Koine as “Ho
Theos” and “Theos” or the accusative “ton Theon” and simply “theos” is
reference to the elohim. In the plural for elohim it became “theoi.” Islam
recognises the One True God of John 17:3 as “Allah' ” The
meaning of this term from its ancient origins really refers to God as “The
Power.” It refers to the particle el,
which can be used for a mighty one or theAlmighty and also for the particle referring to the plural
as these or those amongst us. In this
sense it is the same in Hebrew and Chaldean and hence Aramaic and the variants.
In this sense it is only in the plural when used of “these or those.” In this
sense it is strange that it is plural at SHD 429 when written as ‘elleh in
Chaldean but is grouped with the absolute singular form Eloah.
This word is the same as Eloahh or Elowahh in the Hebrew and refers to the singular one true
God. The plural form elohim
or elahhin
in the Chaldean is plural except where the definite article is used making it Ha elohimmeaning
The God (cf. SHD 430 and notes). God
is thus the power that extends to other beings of the heavenly host and exists
as those among us. Thus the name elohim and yahovah are used of
multiple beings as creations of the One True God, and all acting for Him.The concept is the same in Chaldean or Hebrew or the
variants derived from those languages. The name Allah’ is merely a form that identifies this sense of the singular
Power acting among us. It contains the idea of plurality only in so far as the
agents of the power act for it and contain elements of its power.

Muslims keep a fast for a month (9th
lunar month) so I was wondering if this fast has any biblical basis? If not
then does the Bible require Christians to fast on any other occasions?

A:
The Koran enjoins the faithful to keep the fasting month. This was the
preparation month, which has turned, like all the festivals, into a pagan
system.

Lent
is a perversion of the preparation for the First month to take the Passover
according to biblical Law. The pagan system took this over, as it seems to have
done for Ramadan. The biblical provisions run contrary to this festival and the
Koran simply says to keep the fasting month, which we understand as being from
1 Abib or Nisan to the end of the feast of Unleavened Bread on 21 Abib.

I am Muslim and have had reason to
peruse what is written in the Old Testament - as it of course mirrors so
closely many of the stories in the Qur’an. I don’t even know where to begin
with the New Testament. Who were the men that wrote it? How many years did they
live after Jesus? Basically do all Christians give the same weight to the Old and
New Testaments? I’m asking because many converts ask to have this information
cleared up after they become Muslim. I guess we want religion put into some
kind of perspective of history.

A:
The answers can also be found in the Koran. When the NT was written, Scripture
was the OT. The NT is explanation of the prophetic purpose of the OT. Thus, it
is commentary, as the Koran is also commentary, on the Law of God.

From
the surah: Those who stand in ranks, we see
that the Revelation of God was given from Adam to Noah, and to Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob, and to Moses and Aaron, and to Christ and the Prophets.
Muhammed and the Fourth Rightly guided Caliphs understood Al Islam. After that,
it fell from the purity of its initial faith.

Muhammed
said to keep the Sabbath and whoever did not do so was an ape. Like Christ and
the Apostles, all of Al Islam from Adam to Christ kept the Sabbath. But those
who believed a lie subverted it and changed the day of worship of the faith to
Sunday. They also introduced Easter for the worship of the ancient Goddess,
which caused both Israel
and the Arabs and the Sons of Keturah to stumble. In the same way, the Juma’ah
was confined to Friday prayer session and the Sabbath was forgotten in Islam.
Look at the paper The
Sabbath in the Qur'an (No. 274), and
alsoThe
Juma'ah: Preparing for the Sabbath (No. 285).

In
the same way, the people of the lie invented the Trinity and introduced it in
the Fourth century. This caused the great division of Christianity. The Koran
refers to these two groups. The people of the Scripture are seen from Surahs
II. 105, 111ff., 120, 144; III: 23, 64ff., 98f.,110ff.,
186f., 199; IV. 44f., 123, 153ff., 171; V, 5, 15, 19ff.,
59, 65, 68, 77, XXIX: 46; XXXIII: 26 f.; XCVIII 1 to end; LVII: 29.

The
family of the prophet had the texts of the Bible. We know when they were
written and we know that the texts are all correct. The Dead Sea Scrolls show
us what texts the Prophet had, and that they were the same as at the time of
Christ and that Eloah does not change. The fiction was introduced that the original
texts had been lost under the later Caliphates to avoid keeping the law. As the
prophet said, they could not wait for the prayer session to be over to get on
with trading on the Sabbath. The people of the Book were given protection under
the Rightly Guided caliphs, and they were recognised and lived within Islam
unmolested until this century.

The
NT was written by the people of the First century church. The apostles Matthew
and John wrote their gospels, and the disciples Mark and Luke wrote theirs. The
writings of Paul are genuine and the Book of Hebrews is alleged to have been
initiated by Paul and finished by another disciple, perhaps Barnabus. John is
accepted as writing the gospel, epistles and the Revelation was given to him
when God gave it to the Messiah.

The
History of the canon is detailed in the paper The
Bible (No. 164).
That will give you more details. The original people of the book are still
around, but they are in the minority. It is written: “verily we gave unto Moses
the Scriptures and we caused a train of messengers to follow after Him, and we
gave unto Jesus the son of Mariam (Mary) clear proofs and We
supported him within the Holy Spirit. Is it ever so that when there cometh unto
you a messenger with that which ye yourselves desire not, ye grow arrogant and
some ye disbelieve and some ye slay?”

Did
Allah’ the Beneficent, the Merciful, the one True God, lose them as some Imams
claim? Or is He not powerful enough to catch the words of his prophets for all
time?

“And
they say our hearts are hardened. Nay but Allah’ hath cursed them for their
unbelief. Little is that which they believe.”

What
is it from which man is made? He is saved by the mixture of blood and water,
which gushed from the side of the Messiah who is Al Tarikh: the new Morning
Star. Look at the paper dealing with the position ofChrist and the Koran
(No. 163). The papers at www.logon.org are also in Arabic and other
languages.

The
OT is explained by the NT, and the Koran cannot be understood without the Bible
because it is corrective commentary on it. There is only one Al Islam and it
was given from the very beginning and all men are obliged to keep the laws of
the living God, Eloah or Allah’. You cannot be a true Muslim and not keep the
Sabbath.

Can you please describe what a Caliph
is? Also is this office or person (whichever it maybe) in operation today?

A:
The office of Caliph was a ruler in Islam.

It
is derived from the Arabic Khalifah meaning successor. The form now in use is
Khalif. The Oxford Universal Dictionary says the pronunciation with a long a is bad.

It
is the Muslim title for the civil and religious ruler as successor to the
prophet Muhammed. His dominion is a Caliphate.

Could you please explain what is/was an
Imam and how one becomes/became an Imam?

A:
There are two meanings and uses for Imam. The title means to go before or precede. It is used of an
officiating priest at a Muslim Mosque.

It
was also used as a title given to various Muslim leaders and chiefs including
the Caliphs or independent princes. The normal study and acceptance of a Muslim
community are required.

Judaism

What are the postponements
of the Hillel or Jewish calendar?

A. The
Hillel calendar postpones the Feasts of the Seventh month by introduced
postponements, which were originally formulated in the year 344 by two
Babylonian rabbis and introduced under Rabbi Hillel II in 358 CE. They were not
finalised until the eleventh century. Since the eleventh century the festival
of Rosh Hashanah which was introduced in the third century CE from Babylon to Judaism has
determined the dating of the month and has been used as the New Year. In the
year 2000, for example, Rosh Hashanah
postpones Atonement from its true Date coinciding with the Sabbath of 7 October
by two days so that Atonement commences on the evening of 8 October and takes
place over Sunday Night and Monday 9 October.

Most Protestants say a sin is a sin. Do
you believe in degrees of sin?

A:
Protestants are in a very serious position regarding the nature of sin. The
Bible says quite clearly that sin is the transgression of the law (1Jn. 3:4).
However Protestants do not keep the law of God as a general rule and are
dependent upon the councils of the Fourth Century for the variations to the Law
that were introduced to the church. They depend on Augustine for the theology
that flows from those changes and the concentration of the discussions
regarding God at an intradivine level.

That
is why the Protestant Reformation failed. It failed because Protestantism did not
go back beyond Augustine and restore the original faith. Thus, they were unable
to deal with sin in a coherent manner. The Protestant confessions of the
Reformation all enshrine the Ten Commandments, yet they do not keep the Fourth
and the First intact, and many breach the second also.

The
doctrine is that if you breach one commandment, you breach the entire law.
Also, whatsoever is not of faith is sin (Rom. 14:23). Respect of persons is also sin, and in that, the
church has fallen short of the glory of God (Jas. 2:9). John says that there is
sin that is not unto death. That means that the sins we pick up on our yearly
travel, are washed free and we are allowed to remain within the body of Christ
and the First Resurrection of Revelation 20. Those who commit sin wilfully are
sent to the second resurrection and can face the second death. Whosoever is
born of God does not sin (1Jn 3:9).

This
distinction in sin is the basis for the views regarding mortal and venal sin.
The mainstream church has made the distinction into a charade over the
centuries; however, that was its original doctrine in the NT Church. The sin of
the Corinthian fornicator was such that he was given to the adversary so that
his life might be saved in the last days (1Cor. 5:5). Thus, he was removed from
the Church and from under judgment until he repented. In other words, he was
consigned to the second resurrection so that he could be saved. He was given
the opportunity to repent and it appears he did so repent.

There
are now branches of Antinomianism that are confused with Protestantism which
say the law of God is done away entirely (i.e. nailed to the Stauros in Col.
2:14), and thus there can be no sin on those grounds. This view is increasing
all over the world.

What is the status of Martin Luther? I
know that he was excommunicated but was he ever restored to the faith. If he
was, why was he restored to the faith? Isn’t he a heretic?

A.
The effect of Vatican II was to restore the Protestant Churches to
communication with Rome
and thus, the Protestants were now simply separated brethren and not heretics.

Vatican
I under Pius IX had the effect of reinforcing the Bull Unam Sanctam. The purpose was stated from the margin. The margin
heading and the translation and purpose is in the
paper Theory of the Just War
(No. 110).

In
order to open up dialogue, Vatican II was commenced by John XXIII and continued
by Paul VI. There is a serious rift in the church now and to appease the
hard-liners the new doctrinal statement has now been issued by The Holy Office
called the Sacred Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.

The
grounds for the next Inquisition were established under John Paul II and fears
of that were expressed by notable Roman Catholics, such as Morris West. The
current moves to canonisation of John XXIII and Pius IX are to send conflicting
messages to the church. One says we are returning to the old ways, and the
other says we are continuing in modernisation. This is a significant
psychological ploy. The ploy is to introduce the unacceptable change and then,
at the same time, to deny any change is happening.

The
ones who want no change will stay put, and the ones who want the change will
stay put, each seizing on the aspect they want to see. Gradually, the
opposition side will cook like frogs in hot water. So, in this sense, we have
Luther the Heretic, Luther the Saint who strengthened the church, and Luther
the heretic still. Will the real Martin Luther please stand up? So, also with Canterbury
and the Anglicans/Episcopalians. Note the objections of Canterbury to the last pronouncement of
Ratzinger from the Vatican Inquisition.

By late 20th century, the drop out
phenomenon has emerged as a major though invisible force in American religious
life. Mainline Protestant churches have not lost out to other churches, but to
a kind of religion where individuals have no need of traditional institutional
systems. Today people seem to be content to fashion their own highly
personalized religious beliefs, detached from the old time sense of a faith
community, which had heretofore characterized religious life. Do you agree or
disagree with the above statement.

A:
Our people have been constantly persecuted by traditional Christian
Institutions. We have had to hang on to the Bible through constant persecution.
The Holocaust was designed to wipe out us and Judah as well. Anyone who kept to
the Bible only was persecuted by the so-called mainstream system.

Is
it any wonder having perverted the entire Bible system that when faced with a
more or less true and open era the system could not survive.
In the work by Rabbi Kohn of 1894 you will see what the so-called Christian
system did to us Christians. They murdered our women because they cooked with
goose fat instead of pig fat and kept the Sabbath. When the Roman Catholics
stopped killing them the Lutherans took over (Kohn, Sabbatarians in Transylvania, CCG Publishing, foreword by Cox, 1998).

Why are so many Christians against
Pagans? We aren’t bad people that worship the devil. Besides, Paganism was here
long before Christianity and in a way some of the different faiths of
Christianity can be seen as Pagan. Take for instance the Catholics who worship
the Virgin Mary right along side Jesus Christ. In the Wiccan religion, you will
find that the goddess can be compared to the Virgin Mary and the god as Jesus
Christ simply because the goddess gives birth to the god every year. He lives
his life then dies in the Winter only to be born again
in the Spring, just like Christ. I think this needs to
be explained to more Christians before they go around passing judgement against
Pagans.

What
you say about the Catholic faith is correct. The worship of Mary, as mother
Goddess, came into Christianity from the Baal-Easter system, which gave rise to
paganism in the first place. It was the original faith of the Aryans. Paganism
is a religion based on the cycles of the Days of Human Sacrifice.

God
condemns the system and we, as Christians, are forbidden to use it. The Church of God has been persecuted for two thousand
years because we will not accept the Easter system of the dying God, whether of
Attis in Rome,
or Adonis of the Greeks, or Osiris of the Egyptians. You will find the paper The Origins of Christmas and
Easter (No. 235) of interest,
as will be the paper The
Golden Calf (No. 222).

The
true Christian Church has never accepted these pagan festivals. The early
church from Rome
and Constantinople introduced their errors
into the church to persuade the followers of Attis and Mithras and Sol Invictus
Elagabal, the public form of the sun cults, to join Christianity. The ascetic
aspects of the Gnostics were also incorporated. Look at the paper Vegetarianism and the Bible (No.
183)for those aspects.

All
of these aspects of the worship of the Triune God were in place from the
rebellion of the Host under Satan. That spirit is the spirit you worship. The
Triune system and the three-headed god in the tree are the basis of paganism.
It was in place thousands of years ago. Look at the series on Mysticism(No. B7).

Soon
the time frame of the God of this world will run out and his system will be put
down once and for all. His followers worship this system as the goddess, or the
Gaia or in other forms, but it stems from the same system and the Triune God.

The
world will have until shortly before 2027 to repent. Then the nexus of the Law
will be restored and the very religions they worship will be shown to be
totally impotent. The world will keep God’s law from that time or they will
simply starve to death before their powerless nature system. The so-called
goddess, a demon, will be confined to the bottomless pit for a thousand years
with the rest of the demons.

The
world will be re-educated in the Second Resurrection that is all the rest of
humanity deceived by Satan and this system.That is why the reincarnation system was set among the world. It was to
deceive those in the resurrection.

They
will be re-educated and given a chance to understand and repent. They should be
very grateful that we have a merciful God. The witch at Endor was terrified
when she saw elohim coming up from the earth as Samuel. Yet, even these demons
know there is One True God and tremble.

Soon,
the false Christian system of the mother goddess and sun cults will be gone.
The black-cassocked Khemarim of the Baal-Easter system will be gone and the
world will be free of false worship. The Mystery cults of the Babylonian
Mystery system, which has been a whore on this planet, will be no more.

The
cults are the same in effect because they come from the same place with the
Rebellion of the Host and the Triune God. When the whore is destroyed in the
not too distant future, the pagan faith will experience a
resurgence for a while and then it will be destroyed and men will return
to the true Tithe of God and His system.

Each
needs to study his own system and its origins and repent. The elect do not hate
anyone. They hate what is done. God is not dealing with the world yet. When the
Witnesses take up their positions in Jerusalem,
we will see the power of God in dealing with the system of this world. We are
to love all men and pray for their redemption. It is a fearful thing to fall
into the hands of the living God.

Jehovah’s
Witnesses

It would seem that Jehovah’s Witnesses
would rather die than accept a blood transfusion. Is this rational thinking?
Also on what scripture (s) do they base this belief?

A:
The doctrine of the Jehovah’s Witnesses comes from the Bible texts against
eating blood. The texts are the instructions given to Noah, as well as to
Moses. For example, in Genesis 9:4: “But you shall not eat flesh in its life:
the blood.” The idea comes from the fact that blood is the life and if you take
blood into you it is the same as taking another life into you, by eating their
blood. This is a silly and irrational reading of the text.

The
bad handling of blood with the HIV virus, and the passage on of other STDs with
badly screened blood has left the Jehovah’s Witnesses with more ammunition to
argue their case, but it is still a misrepresentation of the texts of
Scripture. The order not to eat blood is just that and it is placed there to
ensure that animals are bled correctly. It is up to a person as to whether they
will accept treatment or not. To choose to die over this silly rendering of
Scripture is a personal choice.

To
force another person to die over a silly interpretation of Scripture is another
matter again. That is why some states intervene and take the decision away from
parents in life threatening circumstances where the child will die without a
transfusion. These sorts of arguments are an ethical minefield.

This
sort of intrusion into the rights of the parents is a serious problem, as the
circumcision of the male child is being prevented by even sillier arguments
from anti-Bible Law advocates, not only among heathens but among Trinitarians
as well. It is difficult to get a child circumcised in the UK now and
increasingly so. Look at the papers The
Food Laws (No. 15)andPurification
and Circumcision (No. 251).

From discussion with some Jehovah’s
Witnesses they seem to be saying that Jesus Christ returned to earth in 1914.
However we cannot see him because he is a spirit being. They say the last
‘normal’ year in history was 1913, and 1914 was the end of the time of the
gentiles. Does 1914 have any significance in the biblical way of calculating
time sequences? Also how come we all don’t know that Christ has returned? I
don’t imagine this event would go unnoticed.

A:
Yes, we are familiar with their argument. It rests on a misunderstanding of a
little known prophecy in Scripture. They decided that 1914 was the war of the
end of the world. They decided that it was the fulfilment of the 2520 years, or
seven times from Nebuchadnezzar and the Battle of Carchemish. This was the
seven times of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel. Unfortunately, it was only 2518 years
from the Battle of Carchemish, which was in 605 BCE, and so they relocated the
event to 607 BCE.

Also,
they did not understand the significance of the prophecy of Pharaoh’s Broken
Arms in Ezekiel 28-30, and they assumed an incorrect 1914 instead of 1916, and
ended it there instead of taking it to 1996. Nor did they understand the
fundamentalist Islamic problems that led up to the reunion of the Egyptian
Coptic Church with Rome
and the establishment of Egypt
as a quasi fundamentalist force. They misunderstood the whole prophecy in its
relationship to the last days and thus they, like the SDAs of 1844, had to
invent other explanations for the failed advent and consequences.

I’ve seen several times where you say
that after the resurrection we will be asexual. Will we know our children,
grandparents? I was told we will still live as a family unit, no one will die,
children will know great great-grandparents and build homes wherever we wished,
et cetera. I’m sure you’ve heard it before. Are Jehovah’s Witnesses misinformed
in that area?

A:
The JWs are misinformed as to the functions of the millennial system and the
Second Resurrection. The First Resurrection occurs at the beginning of the
Millennium. The elect are all resurrected then and will become spirit beings.
They take the place of the demons for the 1000 years. The rest of the planet
continues on and it is restored. People will live and die as usual within
families.

The
world will be run from Jerusalem
and the Calendar will be kept with all the original systems. Those who do not
keep the laws of God and the Sabbaths, New Moons, and Feasts will get no rain
in due season and suffer the plagues of Egypt (Zech 14:16-19).

They
will then all be resurrected. Every man who has ever lived, who was not part of
the First Resurrection, will be resurrected to the Second Resurrection along
with the demons. They will be asexual. There will be no further marriage from
this point. Every life will be given this 100 year period to repent. They will
all be corrected, converted and then translated. Those who choose to die will
be allowed to die and they will simply be burnt.

God’s
plan is perfect. We serve an Omniscient, Omnipotent, Perfectly Good and True
God who is Father of all. He who sanctifies and they who are sanctified are of
one origin (Heb. 2:11). We
are not going to lose anybody.

As one of Jehovah's Witnesses, I have
read many negative comments on JWs. I would not put anyone’s religion down and
I was wondering why so many people put others down without knowing what they
truly believe. If we claim to serve God, why not have conduct that befits that
claim? Many claim to follow the Bible, yet they have conduct that is false to
their claims. I try to my best ability to love all people of all faiths, and
races. If God is not partial and shows no partiality, who are we to show it?

A:
We should love our neighbour as ourselves. No one hates themselves, then why hate others.

The
Jehovah’s Witnesess church, (or more correctly the WatchTower
and Bible Tract Corporation) has a false view of a number of Scriptures. We
agree with that system on one area and disagree with it regarding the Law of
God and the Sabbaths. We understand their history and understand where they
came from and how they got to where they are now.

We
also know that they have set piece responses and that, as a church, they are
discouraged from studying into any views other than their own and they draw
people into those views contrary to Scripture.

Our
desire is to restore the true first century Christian Faith to all mankind.To do that we have
to expose a few false teachings in most of the sects. The Jehovah’s
Witnesses are notorious for their condemnation of the mainstream system, even
going door to door.

John
the Baptist did not mince words and nor did Christ and nor will the witnesses
when they get here. The Jehovah’s Witnesses, like every one else on the planet
will start keeping the laws of God or they will die. There will be no
negotiation.

They
will start keeping the New Moons and Sabbaths (Isa 66:23) and the Feasts of God
(Zech 14:16-19) and they will send the national representatives to Jerusalem
each year or there will be no rain in due season and the plagues of Egypt will
be brought down on them.

Do you believe in reincarnation? Why is
it I have met people I instantly knew and been to places that were very
familiar to me? I realize Scripture states to each man there has been an
appointed time (one life time) but is there a possibility that mankind had more
than one life.

A:
Reincarnation is a product of the Soul doctrine and is contrary to the Bible.
The familiarity we experience with people is often derived from our memory of
people, expressions, words and association. The Celts also had this doctrine
from the other Aryan systems. It is a particularly enslaving error. We have to
deal with the problems it causes especially in India. Philosophy was originally a
religion designed to liberate rational men from the wheel of rebirth taught by
the Hyperborean Celts. The Bible teaches the Resurrection of the Dead and the
life to come as spirit beings from the two resurrections. The biblical position
is detailed in the papers The
Soul (No. 92); The Resurrection of the Dead (No.
143)and The City of God (No. 180).

We all know that our
soul which doesn’t have birth; doesn’t have death; i.e. the birth of a person
is the creation of a person and his death means his body ceases to function.
Why do they say Jesus came alive 3 days after being
crucified? If the soul departs the body after death what is special in the case
of Jesus? Either he didn’t die after being put on the cross or after his death
his soul departed to heaven?

A: The doctrine
of the immortal soul is not a true Christian doctrine. It entered Christianity
from the Gnostic systems and as a refined position of the Socratic doctrines.
In the first and second centuries, if you said to any true Christian that when
you died you went to heaven, they would know that you were an impostor. In fact, the Church at Rome wrote to the emperor ca. 150-154
providing an understanding of the faith. They also wrote to the Senate. The
writer for the Church was Justin Martyr. He also wrote to the Jews in his Dialaogue with Trypho the Jew
(cf. Ch.
80). Justin told himthat if he came across people who said they were
Christians and that when they died they went to heaven, not to believe them
because they were not Christians. Now we have millions of people claiming to be
Christians but who believe in an immortal soul, and heaven and hell.

A: The myth runs that Peter was
crucified upside down because heclaimed
he was not worthy to die like his Lord. The fact of the matter is that the
symbols of inversion are all tied up with sacrifice and black magic, and that is
why the cross is depicted as an X, which is the basic symbol of inversion in
magic. This entire system of sacrifice and inversion stems from the logic of:
“The more desperate the situation, the greater the sacrifice must be to stem
the tragedy.” That is why we saw the terrible sacrifices in the rites of the
Carthaginians, and also in the Pre-Columbian Americans. Cirlot covers this
aspect in “The Dictionary of Symbols” (pp. 158ff.). The Greeks and Romans took
the “stauros” and crucifixion itself from the Phoenicians. It was an upside
down stake until the Romans refined it later by adding the cross bar to prolong
death. The custom, in lesser-educated levels of Roman Catholicism, of inverting
or turning the head of a saint downwards or towards the wall comes from the
process of magical inversion. By inverting the effigy, the faithful hope to
invert his attitude towards them (Cirlot, p. 159). It is a pagan rite based on
the doctrine of the Immortal Soul and has no place in Christianity. Look at the
papers The
Cross: Its Origin and Significance (No. 39);The
Resurrection of the Dead (No. 143)and The
Soul (No. 92).

I came across an article that reflected
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's comments "the victims of the Holocaust, all the six
million Jews, all those poor people who were lost at the hands of those
evildoers the Nazis...were reincarnations of earlier souls who sinned time and
again and did all sorts of things that shouldn't have been done, and were
reincarnated in order so that things could be set right" Where does this
kind of thinking come from? It seems so hurtful to all you lost loved ones in the
Holocaust or livedthrough the ordeal. How will peace and
happiness come to man and the planet?

A:
The idea of reincarnation is a perversion of the doctrine of the resurrection
of the dead. The OT and the NT teaches the Resurrection of the Dead. The
general resurrection is 100 years in duration. That period is at the end of the
millennial reign of Messiah. The plan is given in the paper Outline Timetable of the Age
(No.272)and also
in the paper The Resurrection of
the Dead (No. 143).Thus the world will be given a
resurrection to flesh and that process is covered also in Ezekiel chapter 37.

In
one sense this is a reincarnation and that has been taken by these people to
support a doctrine of reincarnation. One of Satan's ploys is to perpetrate the
doctrine of reincarnation and he did that from the beginning. He knew that when
people woke up in the Second Resurrection, which covers most of the world's
populace, if they thought it was just another time around it would be harder to
deal with them. In a sense that is true. We will have to convince these people
that they have this one chance and they are under judgment at that time and
they will not get another chance. In a sense
that will waste some of our time and education process rectifying that
thinking.

The
notion that the Holocaust was for sinners who were reincarnated is a bizarre
Hindu/Buddhist idea based on the law of the Dharma and Kharma. It certainly has
nothing to do with the Bible and is a gross insult to the survivors of the
Holocaust. The notion behind it is this.

1.
Jews are of Judah
and Judah
is part of the chosen people Israel.

2.
God protects the righteous.

3.
God did not protect Judah
in the holocaust therefore the Jews who died were not righteous. They must have
been sinning and to have so many who sinned they must all have been
reincarnated at the same time to be made to suffer.

This
view takes no account of the insane drive of the Europeans over the centuries
to eradicate the Law of God and all who kept it. To concede that God was not
protecting Judaism per se would involve these people in coming to grips with
the fact that they were in a false system of worship and they would have to
repent.

The
reality is that the god of this world is attempting to destroy the chosen
people and the true church with the resources of the false church and he knows
that his time is short. Satan only has a maximum of twenty-five years left
before he is confined to the bottomless pit. In that time he will attempt to
destroy the church and the people of Israel and eradicate most of
mankind.

Comments
like that of the head of Shas simply inflame tensions and make war more
inevitable. It also misleads people as to the intention of the Bible structure
and plan.

Apolostic
Tradition

Hippolytus speaks of the Apostolic Tradition 21:16 (AD 215). Do you know what he
is talking about? His statement was on baptism of infants. What is Apostolic
Tradition? Is it a book of the Bible? It has marking of the Bible 21:16.

A: The reference
of Hyppolytus to baptism is in the ANF,
Vol. V, p. 236 and does not have the reference to
which you refer, nor does he mention infant baptism there. The introduction of
infant baptism appears to have been in the third century, and we find a
treatise on it by Cyprian in the second half of the third century. It was
decided the eighth day circumcision rule was not to be followed, but a child
could be baptised on the second or third day (ANF, ibid., pp. 353ff.).

There was no apostolic tradition of infant baptism in the
records of which we know. Indeed the treatise by Cyprianis the early apology and makes no reference to such a
tradition, and it certainly would have if such a tradition existed as he was
writing a defence of infant baptism (cf. ibid., p. 354 Ep. LVIII, 3). The
comment of Hippolytus is therefore of interest.

The comments by Tertullian also indicate that such was not
the case, as he declared baptism should be delayed until the children had grown
in the faith and had been able to know Christ. He refers to the argument
regarding sponsors, and this indicates that the introduction of infant baptism
and sponsors was in the first part of the third century and he was arguing
against the novelty here in the treatise on baptism (ANF, Vol. III, p. 678). He also says that the time before Passover
was the most suitable time for baptism. Then after that Pentecost and the feast
days, but every day was a suitable time following that. The Churches of God,
who practice adult baptism, have always baptised in this way either in
preparation for Passover or at the feasts.

Irenaeus says in 2:22.4: “For He
came to save all through means of Himself - as, I say, who through him are born
again to God - Infants, and children, and boys, and youths and old men. He
therefore passed through every age, becoming an infant for infants, thus
sanctifying infants; a child for children thus sanctifying those who are of
this age...”. Now, Wall and others held that this was
the statement of a valuable fact as to infant baptism in the primitive church (ANF, Vol. 1, p. 391 fn. 9). However, the
point here under discussion is sanctification, not baptism. A reading of the NT
shows us that we are dealing with Sanctification, which for those who were
infants, children and adolescents was through their parents. Irenaeus is not
speaking of infant baptism. He is speaking of the comprehensive sanctification
of all men through Christ. The terminology does not even mention women, so to argue
that we are dealing with a literal and direct relationship would exclude
females from baptism. The discussion is thus dependent upon known Scriptural
facts regarding the sanctification of children

1Corinthians 7:12-14 shows you the true meaning of what
Irenaeus is referring to and shows you that children are not baptised but are
sanctified in the believing parent, in the same way the unbelieving spouse is
sanctified while they agree to dwell with a believing mate. Repeating, there is
no evidence of infant baptism in the early Church, nor is there any known
tradition of such baptism. The NT, in fact, records many baptisms but never one
instance of a child being baptised with the adults; the supposed reference in Hippolytus. Much of this type of material is based on
misquotes, or misconstructions as we see here, to support later traditions
which have no Scriptural basis.

A relative tried to convince me that one
could not only believe the Bible but you must believe apostolic tradition based
on 2Thessalonians 2:15; the basic argument “you were born a Catholic, you will
die a Catholic, do not question!” What does God tell us to believe in His Word?

A: What
does Christ say to the Pharisees? You have set at nought the word of God by
your traditions. The so-called apostolic traditions are anything but apostolic.
The Bible is clear: If they do not speak according to the Law and the
Testimony, there is no light in them (Isa. 8:20). That goes for any priest or minister who speaks
counter to the Commandments of God and the Testimony of Jesus Christ. That is
why the world is in such a complete mess, and why Christianity now finds itself
beset by commonality with paganism and witchcraft. It is because it adopted
their practices for political purposes and then termed them the traditions of
the Church.

Easter
is representative of a pagan goddess of the worship of Baal, which God
condemned through His servants the prophets. This is now a tradition of many
churches. If Yahovah is God, then worship Him, but if Baal is god then follow
him. But do not call it the tradition of the Church. Look at the Statement of Beliefs (No. A1).
These are the true traditions of the Apostles.

Mormons

Is Mormonism a Christian religion? I
know that they claim that it is, but is it?

A:
Your question demands the definition of a true Christian. What is the Christian
religion? The Bible answers that question in Revelation 12:17 and 14:12. The dragon was wroth with the woman and went to make war on
her offspring. These are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith
or testimony of Jesus Christ.

The
commandments of God demand the worship of the one True God, whom Jesus
worshipped and who is his Father and our Father, and his God and our God.
Christ kept the Sabbath as the Seventh day of the week.

He
kept the Passover and Unleavened Bread. He kept the Wave Sheaf, as is commanded
in Leviticus 23. He and the early Church kept the New Moons, and the Feast of
Pentecost also from Leviticus 23 (cf. Col. 2:16).

He
and the early Church kept Trumpets and Atonement from Leviticus 23. He also
kept Tabernacles and the Last Great Day from Leviticus 23. He and the apostles
ate only clean meats from Deuteronomy 14 and Leviticus 11. He instituted the
Lord’s Supper on 14 Abib and died on that day as the Passover Lamb, and also
told us to keep those days. He was resurrected from the dead and the Church
believed that it would be resurrected from the dead at his return. They did not
believe in the immortal soul, or heaven, or hell.

They
also did not keep pagan festivals and would not even eat with those of the
Baal-Easter system of the pagans (see the paper The
Origins of Christmas and Easter (No. 235).
If the Mormons do all these things, then they are true Christians. If they do
not, they are not true Christians. All you have to do is make sure you do all
these things, and live as Christ and the apostles lived, and you will be a true
Christian. Anyone who does not do the things listed above is not a true
Christian. If we love Him, we should keep His commandments.

I had some Mormons visit and I asked
about their belief in baptising for the dead and collecting genealogies to find
names to baptise for. They seemed to feel the unbaptised would not be saved.
'Mormo' is listed as King of the Ghouls or the living dead by Lavey in the
satanic bible. Is this infernal name where the Mormons get their name?

A:
The preoccupation with the dead is quite bizarre given the doctrines of the
Bible. Yes LaVey does mention Mormo as the god of the dead and it is very
likely that this sort of joke was involved in Mormonism from the start. It is
now a fixation of the religion. The name Mormon does mean a follower of Mormo
god of the Dead. That is why some of them resist the name. However they exhibit
all the features of a cult of the dead. The only thing they may not do is
disinter the dead for ritual feasts.

It
is intriguing to note the strange parallels and quirks in the names and ritual
of the Mormons. Their centres have symbolism of Freemasonry and particularly
Scottish rite free masonry in all their old materials. Even their old temples
and drawings are set out with reference to the Masonic temple. Their old
newspaper was a direct reference to the occult.

You
have to see it and have some understanding of free masonry and its symbolism to
really appreciate it all but there is no doubt it was established by Scottish
rite free masons and Mormonism adopted its cosmology. That was one of the reasons
they were attacked and killed and had to flee from Missouri. The punishment for betraying the
secrets of the cult is death. Their loyalties, like the RC orders also
transcend national boundaries.

Many
of the Mormon followers and especially the females do not seem to understand
it. My questions could not be answered in some critical areas and perhaps some
were to be kept from the public also.

The
angel Moroni
that gave the Book of Mormon is a play in the Hebrew suffix i effectively
meaning "of the" e.g. "tribe or people of" for example
Ashkenazi means of the sons of Ashkenaz (who was of the sons of Gomer). Angel
Moroni is a play on the forms angel to the Morons using the accepted sense of
the word.

The
coincidences are too many to be accidental. Whoever drafted the religion had a
great knowledge of masonry and the occult and a very subtle sense of humour.

I have heard that Mormons wear sacred
undergarments and that these have symbols or markings on them. Is this true and
if so what is the significance of this practice.

A:
This is an interesting question. The following is the testimony of an ex Mormon
on the subject.

Basic Information about Temple Garments

“It
has been awhile (around ten years) since I have bought or worn garments, but
excluding any changes that may have been made since then, here is what I know:
Temple garments are first worn after a person has received his or her first
Temple "endowment". During this endowment, the person is given a
"new name", is taught the story of the creation of the world (from
the LDS perspective), makes vows concerning his faith, learns the way he is to
enter the CelestialKingdom, and is given
instruction in other things. Among the topics of instruction is the proper
wearing of Temple
garments. The garments are to be worn under one's clothing at all times, except
during times, to be determined by the member's own prayerful discretion, where
the garments would be exposed to non-members or would hinder a worthwhile
activity. The examples I was given were that the garments could be removed for
bathing, sexual relations, activities such as swimming (where they would not be
concealed under even the most modest swimsuit and would get wet), and for
visits to the doctor's office or hospital, where they could easily be seen by
non-members. The temple workers explained that there were other situations
where the garments could be temporarily removed, subject to the wearer's
judgment, but that the garments were a source of both spiritual and physical
protection, and should be worn continuously as much as possible. For instance,
it was not considered advisable to remove them routinely at bedtime and sleep
without them.

One
time at a Fast and Testimony meeting, I remember hearing a man, who had been a
youth group advisor when I was in my teens, give a
speech about how his garments had protected him from physical injury. He had
been at a gas station pumping gas. His car was one of those that had the
opening to the gas tank in the rear of the car underneath the license plate
holder. Suddenly, a car came up behind him and pinned him between its front
bumper and his car's rear bumper at just above knee level. He testified that
the area of his legs caught between the two bumpers had been covered by his
garments, and had been "merely bruised instead of broken." He
considered this evidence of the protective powers of his garments. Could it
have been merely that the force of the collision was not sufficient to break
his legs? While his was the only first-hand story about the protective power of
garments I ever heard, I have run across several tales of the anecdotal,
Mormon-urban-myth, "faith-promoting" variety. One story centers
around a LDS man who had been struck by lightning. Two LDS sisters see the
lightning strike him in the middle of a field and go running up to him. When
they arrive at his side, they see that he is dead, horribly burned on his face,
lower arms, and lower legs. "But, look," one sister says to the
other, "every place his garments covered his body there are no
burns!" And indeed, the garments, and the skin beneath them are untouched.
I thought that was a weird story when I heard it. I mean, come on, he's dead!
What difference does it make that his torso is in fine shape when his head's
burned off? Maybe they need to make hooded garments...

As
far as the physical appearance of the garments go they look somewhat like short
versions of "long john" underwear. The men's garments have a top with
short sleeves and a neckline that is a bit more "scooped" than a
typical men's T-shirt. The bottoms reach to just above the knees. Women's
garments are similar except there is a choice of different necklines (scooped,
V, or square), and the sleeves are shorter than the men's, sort of like
"cap sleeves." The bottoms also reach to just above the knees. Both
men's and women's come in either one-piece or two-piece styles, and in a
variety of fabric weights and blends, such as nylon, cotton, cotton/poly.
All Temple
garments are pure white, although I have heard that they also come in olive drab
for LDS people in the military, but I have never seen these. All Temple garments are
marked with symbols on the right breast, left breast, navel, and one knee.
These markings are embroidered into the garment with white thread (although in
the case of the military garments, it may well be olive drab thread.) The
markings symbolize certain phrases from the Temple endowment ceremony. Members are
informed that they are not to cut, sew, or alter the garments in any way. For
example, they cannot be shortened, pinned up, or rolled up to allow for wearing
a shorter dress or pair of shorts. Exceptions to the "no alterations"
rule can be made for members who are physically handicapped.

When
the garments wear out, members are advised to cut out the areas with the embroidered
markings with scissors and burn them. With the markings gone, the garments are
no longer considered sacred, and can be used as dusting rags, as with any
worn-out garment.”

--Serratia

Monasticism

What is Monasticism and where did it
come from?

A:
Originally, monasticism was associated with the cults of the god Attis and the
Easter system of Asia Minor. The priests of
the goddess known as Essene (not to be confused with the Qumran
community for whom Pliny used the term), lived a celibate existence and some
castrated themselves in the service of the deity.

When
the cults penetrated Christianity and brought the Easter system with them, the
same ascetic traditions also entered the faith. The first Monastic, or the
person who is credited with the foundation of Christian Monasticism, is
Anthony. Athanasius is credited with writing his life, and he became famous
perhaps from that fact in the fourth century.

There
has been some dispute as to the exact timing of his life, and some have even
disputed his existence. The fact of the matter is,
that the early Monastics were ascetics who did not live communally, as it is
now known. They lived in cells, as part of the same complex.

The
life style slowly became more popular and, in medieval times, the monastic
orders assumed real power and eventually, in the twelfth century, removed the
deaconesses and the married clergy from the monasteries and the church clergy
entirely.

Gnosticism

What is the meaning of Bythus?

A:
Bythus is the name for the Gnostic abyss but like all things they seems to have
placed a twist on it such that it existed as the abyss of Deity proceeding from
the invisible and nameless heights of the perfect pre-existing Aeon which they
called the first principle that is Progenitor and Bythus.

Hippolytus
(vi, 37) speaks of the Gnostic Valentinus who he says:
He whom Plato spoke of a king of all, this man postulated as father and Bythus
and first principle of all the aeons.

The
Valentinians held that to be a process of self-limitation. The Bythus evolved a
series of pairs of aeons, male and female, any pair of which may be called the
pleroma. The Aeon was a unity, which manifested itself as a plurality.

Later
Gnosticism exhibits them as a confederacy of Divine existences proceeding in
pairs from the supreme Father, each pair originating another, descending in
dignity as it becomes more remote from the source (ERE, Aeons, Vol. 1, p. 149).

The
doctrines of the Syzygies had its counterpart in Mithraism also and both are
derived from the Babylonian system, which Gnosticism softened (cf. ERE, ibid). In this sense they also have
their counterparts in Japanese Shintoism, Mahayana Buddhism, Zoroastrianism,
the Platonic Ideas, Philos Powers and the Stoic Logoi and so on.

The
Shinto system set forth in the Kojiki rests on pure pantheism. As Izanagi and
Izanami the male and female principles are personified and depicted as grossly
lustful. These procreative Aeons are derived from abstract deities.

In
the Northern School of Adibuddha, the five Buddhas of contemplation
(Vairochana, Aksobhya, Ratnasambhava, Amitabha, and Amoghasiddhi) emanate the
five future Buddhas of contemplation, the source of the five worlds, which
successively make up the universe. They became the five elements of earth,
water, fire, air and ether or orthodox Brahmanism. The Zoroastrian has a
similar but twofold system of aeons in the kingdoms of Light and of Darkness. Ahuramazda heads the kingdom of Light
and Ahriman heads the kingdom
of Darkness.

The
Gnostic Pleroma was also a name given to the whole series taken together which
then stands to the Bythus in the feminine relation as Tiamat did to Apsu.
However, Gnosticism never formed a homogenous body of opinions.

Hippolytus
warns us that there were many varying opinions among them concerning the Bythus
itself. Some thinkers held Bythus to be outside of the pleroma while others
held him to be within it but separated from the rest by the Horus which was a
personified boundary (cf. ERE, Vol.
1, pp. 54-55) and perhaps this reflects the Egyptian mysteries, as the
socio-economic origins of Gnosticism, according to Green, lay in the
Alexandrian system.

Some
also deposed the Bythus from the head of the series and made him follow the
first ogdoad. Some thought of him as unwedded, others as androgynous or
asexual. Others gave him Sige as his consort and others the two powers Thought
and Will.

The
relation of Gnostic speculation on the Bythus is indicated in one sentence of
Irenaeus (ap. Epiphaneus xxxii, 7) "For some say that he is unwedded and
is neither male nor female, nor in fact, anything at all." Perhaps this is
the reference in question.

In
some ways he was portrayed in a quasi-Buddhist sense being exalted above all
contrarieties: The Absolute identical with Nothing; the
Being of whom even existence might not be predicated. It is from this Gnostic
concept that the Mystics developed the thought process:

"I
saw and knew the being of all things, the Byss and the Abyss, and the eternal
generation of the Holy Trinity, the descent and original of the world and of
all creatures through the Divine Wisdom" (Jacob Behmen, quoted by James, Varieties of Religious Experience, p.
411 and also ERE, ibid, p. 55).

How do you equate your
Christian beliefs with your study of ancient cultures and the links between the
ancient Middle East and South
America? – What of Heaven and Hell?

A:
There appears to be no conflict between what the Bible actually says and what
the Scientists are finding on a daily basis. The conflict lies in what most
modern Christians say it says.

For
example we do not and have never believed in
the doctrine of Heaven and Hell. That is not a Christian Doctrine. It came in
from the Gnostics in the second century. Justin
Martyr said in his Dialogue with Tryphoaimed at the Jews on behalf of the Church in
Rome ca 150-155 that is he came across people who said they were Christians and
said that when they died they went to Heaven, do not imagine they are
Christians.

This
was the test of a true Christian and a false Christian then and it still is the
test of a true Christian. Any one who says
that when they die they go to heaven is not a true Christian. The doctrine of
the soul and heaven and hell is a godless and blasphemous doctrine and has
always been regarded as such by the true Christian Church, which Church we are.

Circumcision

Should newborn sons of Christian parents be
circumcised or is it unnecessary?

A:
The practice of circumcision is perhaps one of the oldest rites of all
civilisations. It is found among all tribes and areas (cf. Purification
and Circumcision (No. 251)). Circumcision has a beneficial effect
in hot desert climates in the prevention of disease. Aside from this effect,
the original practice seemed to have a distinct relationship to the concept of
rebirth and reincarnation. From the most ancient times, the foreskin of the
circumcised male was placed in a location of some direct proximity to the
totems of the circumcised males, either in rocks or trees or the like. From
what we can now tell, it appears that the practice of circumcision is actually
tied to the concept of the rebirth of the individual in the bodies of the
descendants. This appears to have been carried over as a concept among all the
ancient tribes. It has specific bearing on the concept of the lie in original
sin, namely, thou shalt not surely die.

It appears that by
giving the ordinance of circumcision to Abraham as a requirement of the eighth
day (when clotting begins to occur), God was
actually intervening and giving direct and corrective meaning to an existing
pagan practice. God was saying, “I am your rock or totem and the object of your
resurrection and continued life.” That it was to be done at the eighth day and
not at puberty, removed it from the realm of the self existence and manhood of
the individual and placed it on the level of the free gift of God as a member
of the nation of Israel.
God was striking at the lie of the soul and the reincarnation doctrines of the
pagan or satanic teachings of the Sin and Ishtar systems (cf. the papers The
Golden Calf (No. 222)andThe
Origins of Christmas and Easter (No. 235)).

In the early church the
circumcision controversy arose where the so-called Hellenizing party rejected
it and the Judaising party affirmed it (Acts 11:2; 15:1,5;
21:21). Paul had himself
been circumcised and, under Jewish pressure, he circumcised Timothy (Phil. 3:5;
Acts 16:3). He considered it a mark of divine favour of the nation (Rom. 3:1
ff.). However, in the case of Gentile converts, it was considered unessential
(Acts 15:19 ff.; cf. Gal.
5:2-4). Paul regarded the presence or absence of physical circumcision as
equally immaterial to the covenant between the adult male and God (Rom. 3:30f.; 4:9ff.; 1Cor. 7:18f.; Gal. 5:6; 6:12f.; Col. 3:11). By
faith the Law is established and righteousness through faith. For they themselves that are circumcised do not keep the law,
but attempt to glory in the flesh of we who do keep the law (Gal. 6:12ff.). For
the only true circumcision is spiritual. In this teaching Paul reinforces
Jeremiah (Jer. 4:4; 6:10; 9:26; cf. Deut. 10:16; 30:6). He allows for divergent
procedures under different circumstances (Acts 16:3, Gal 2:1).

Non-Trinitarians or
so-called Arian sects were in agreement with the Trinitarians on this matter.
The Trinitarians or Catholics took power shortly after this and in 590
established the Holy Roman Empire. Eugene IV
gave the official Roman Catholic pronouncement in the Bull Cantate Domino (4
Feb. 1441). He held that the requirements and ceremonies of the
Law, however proper for the time, were abrogated by the coming of Christ and
the sacraments of the NT. Thus, baptism was seen as replacing circumcision.

In the Coptic Church,
baptism was not seen as replacing circumcision. When infant baptism was
introduced, boys were baptised at 40 days old and girls at 80 days old. This
procedure reflected exactly that of the purification legislation and
circumcision for males remains general (ERE,
vol. 4, p. 119). The Copts were part of the earliest Christian Church of North Africa from Egypt. They separated from the
so-called Orthodox church ca. 451 as a result of the
doctrines arising from Constantinople (381)
and Chalcedon
(451). It may be correctly argued from the evidence of the Copts, that baptism
was not seen as replacing circumcision. While the Copts adopted infant baptism
based on the male/female purification distinctions, the males were still
circumcised, as was the practice in ancient Israel. Thus, the male and
circumcision itself was seen as being the distinctive factor in the
purification distinctions, which mirrored the biblical distinctions.

We can conclude from the
early Coptic church practices, which were also practiced among Sabbatarian
sects in Europe and Asia Minor, that circumcision for infants was considered
essential as part of the nation of Israel and the Church. Only the adult
Gentile males were not required to be circumcised, when they entered the Church
as adults. Since the act of physical circumcision was to give way to the
spiritual fulfillment of baptism and circumcision of the heart, and since
infant baptism was not practised in the early church (cf. Repentance and Baptism (No. 52)), it
followed that physical circumcision on the eighth day for newborn males was a
sign of the nation of Israel as the Church. When in the Church, Gentiles had
their children circumcised, as did everyone else. This practice was general and
was not pronounced against officially in the Catholic system until the
fifteenth century. We might deduce from the relationship of the seven days of
purification and the activities of the circumcision of the eighth day that we
are dealing with the plan of salvation. The seventh day of purification relates
to the final millennial system and the purification of the earth. The eighth
day relates to the final resurrection and the restoration of all flesh on the
earth, as part of the nation of Israel
and hence part of the City of God
(cf. Rev. 21:1-3 and the paper The City of God (No. 180)).

Buddhism

What do you think about Buddhism? Can
Buddhism and Christianity have the same goal?

A: Buddhism
is a religion that is a negation. It denies the existence of God at the highest
levels. It was an invention of a kshatryan knight Sidartha or Guatama in the
sixth century BCE to explain the wheel of birth of the Aryan Hindus as was
philosophy among the Greeks invented for the same purpose to explain it among
the Hyperborean Celts of Britain and Europe.

As
Christianity is completely God centred they cannot have anything other than
transitory and superficial objectives in common. The origins of Buddhism are explained in the work Mysticism Chapter 7 Buddhism (No.
B7_7).

Do you have any information on the Dalai
Lama?

The
life and details of Tenzin Gyatso the 14th Dalai Lama can be found at
www.dalailama.com.

Dalai
is a Mongolian word meaning "Ocean" and Lama is a Tibetan word
meaning "Spiritual teacher" and hence they render that as Ocean of Wisdom. He is viewed as the
14th reincarnation of the person who was the first Dalai Lama.

There
are many Lamas in Tibet
of various ranks. They are chosen as children based on the doctrine of
reincarnation and the notion that people are reincarnated according to the law
of the Dharma. It is like a great credit/debit ledger that traps people into a
mode of existence they allegedly deserve because of what they did in a past
life.

I don´t see the chakras mentioned in the
Bible, aren´t they important to know about?

A:
The concept of the chakras is a physical problem to Buddhism and the sects
influenced by them. The Bible does not deal with them because they are
unimportant to salvation.

They
can be measured by certain electro magnetic fields but they have no consequence
in dealing with the plan of salvation and the body of Christ.

What about the aspect of healing? There
are a lot of books on healing with the chakras involved.

A:
The question of the healing is of faith. The healing of which you speak is of
the Hindu and Buddhist systems.

How
long will ye be of two minds? If Yahovah is God then follow Him but if Baal is
God then follow him.

Hinduism

In what way is Hinduism ecumenical?

A:
Hinduism is a polytheist structure, which is ecumenical only in the sense that
it has incorporated deities into its pantheon as it deemed relevant to its own
system. It does not tolerate other structures that conflict with its cosmology.

That
is why it is increasingly hostile to Christian missions. Buddhism originated in
India
as a reaction to the rigid class and caste system of Hinduism. Islam came there
under conquerors and was established because of that fact. The partition of India and the
hostility caused by religious conflict is progressing towards thermonuclear
war. It cannot be considered "ecumenical".

My Teacher says the Old Testament dates
to 600 BC, but that it has ideas derived from the Rig Veda which is older.
Conclusion, the authors of the Bible made it up based on previous ‘myths’. If I
knew when the Dead Sea Scrolls date back to
(he was mainly comparing Genesis) then I could tell him he was wrong. Do you
know?

A:
He is a closet Hindu. The Rig Veda was based on the Aryan Genesis Myths, which
were taken into India
ca. 1000 BCE.

The Triune God was taken into India ca 1700 BCE from Assyria, at the same time Israel under the patriarchs was in Egypt. Look at
Wolperts, “A New History of India.”
The dating for the Bible at 600 BCE is absolute drivel. Look at the paper The Bible (No. 164).
It will give you the datings and structure. The Hindu Gods are characters from
the Chaldean/Hebrew texts adopted from Ancestor worship.

I am an Indian and at present studying
in the Indian School, Bahrain. I have the following
questions:

1) Explain the utility of celebrating
National religious festivals at home and in the schools?

2) Could you please tell me about a
Hindu festival by Raksha Bandhan and explain why & how it is to be
celebrated to make the children not only enjoy but understand the significance
also?

A:
Millennia ago men stopped keeping the festivals of God and developed systems of
worship. The systems laid down by God were beneficial and men required these
periods for rest and spiritual regeneration.

When
the Aryans invaded India
ca 1000 BCE they brought with them a structure of the explanation of creation
based on the worship in the Middle East and
established there a Sanskrit system based on the ancient Semitic or Chaldean
languages.

The
ancient figures in ancestral traditions became God through ancestor worship. Sheba or Shiva
became the Hindu God. Noah or Nu became Seri Nu the God of money or wealth. The
Nephilim became the Raksasas.

From
this view, cults of the fallen host or demons, the female demons the Rakshanis
were developed. Initially they were female demons and spirits of the wood.
Then, and as batal, there were akin to the yoginis or rock spirits in animism
as were the banasats. Chungu is another tree demon from the more primitive tribes
in Indian animism.

The
festivals founded around these animistic and substitutionary rites are used to
replace the original festivals God had given to Nabi Nu or Noah when the earth
was replenished. They are a secondary rite used to maintain mankind in the
absence of the original true festivals of God abandoned by the Aryans before
they invaded India
and established the Hindu cast and religious system.

Now
to the second part of your question.

Raksha
Bandhan is a Hindu custom marking the love and affection between brothers and
sisters. Raksha means "Protection," (derived from the concept of
protection from the demons mentioned above) Bandhan means "bond". It
is celebrated on 'Shravan sud Poornima' every year, according to the Hindu
calendar. On this day, sisters tie a colourful 'Rakhi' on the wrists of their
brothers and ask their brothers to protect them from calamities. It is believed
that when Indra was going into a particular battle, Indrani tied a thread on
his hand for his protection and success and thus this custom started.
Allegedly, Raksha Bandhan is an occasion that depicts the bond of affection
between brothers and sisters.

How would you define a Shaman? I do not
think we have that many left, but we are getting lots of Shamanic
Practitioners. What makes someone a bonafide fulltime real Shaman?

A:
The word Shaman is derived from the Russian based on the Tungusian saman. Originally and predominantly they
are priests or priest doctors among the northern tribes of Asia.
They were originally animistic and derived from the mysteries in the Middle East and Russian steppes. They formed the
religious basis of the Uralic/Altaic peoples, which spread over northern Siberia and into Europe.

The
linguistic groups that comprise the original structure encompass the Uralic
Altaic groups including Finno Ugric, Hungarian/Magyar, Vogul and Manshi,
Manchu/ Tungus, Manchurian, Mongol, Old Korean and Japanese. The forms spread
into North America with the American Indians.
They formed the basis of the animistic influences on Mahayana Buddhism.

The
structure of Shamanism is covered excellently in Mirceau Eliade's Shamanism. The fundamental belief is that all the good and
evil of life are brought about by spirits, who can be influenced only by the
Shamans. This is applied to the North West American Indians and their medicine
men who are Shamans along the Asian lines. The word to Shamanize means
intransitively to perform the incantations of a shaman and tr. to imbue with
Shamanistic beliefs (Oxford Universal
Dictionary).

The
Chinese recognised them but considered that to prophesy one needed to be
possessed by a Shen. They were considered to lie. The Shen is related to the
Chaldean word and hence the Arabic Djinn and hence a spirit or demon.

This was posted on the August
Celebrations flyer at work: Special Chinese holiday in which legend says that
during the 7th lunar month, souls are released from purgatory to roam the
Earth. Is there such a Chinese holiday? I realize that the month of August really
falls basically in the 5th lunar month but Cultural Diversity Committee posted
in August for some reason.

A:
This sounds very much like a Jesuit influenced tradition from the time of the
early Roman Catholic influences. It certainly could not have come from the
Islamic Hue Hue or Sabbatarians that preceded them.

The
Festival to which you refer stems from the cult of ancestor worship. The
sacrifices to the ancestors took place at the graves in spring and autumn and
performed at the "Tablet of the deceased" on the occasion of the
periodic festivals.

These
were at the first, third and fifteenth of the First moon, The festival of
"Clear-Bright" (approx. 6 April); the fifth of the Fifth moon, the
fifteenth of the Seventh moon; the fifteenth of the Eighth moon; the first of
the Tenth moon; The last day of the year; and on special occasions such as
weddings (ERE, vol. 3, p. 731).

On
the fifteenth day of the Seventh moon a special festival is held for the
"hungry ghosts" who have no descendants to sacrifice to them. The
customary offerings are made to them by the people generally and not altogether
from benevolent motives. The offerings have the underlying theme of appeasing
these "orphan" spirits who might otherwise injure the living.

The
notion of purgatory is one that can only have been post Roman Catholic
influence under the Jesuits. As a general rule the enlightened Chinese under
Confucian influence, denied the efficacy of such sacrifices and the great
commentator Chucius of the 12th century doubted the existence of spirits at
all. The Hue Hue and Sabbatarians believed in the resurrection of the dead and
denied spirits.

The
influence is probably from early Shamanism as there is a view among Japanese
shamans regarding the month of the dead. It was probably then reinforced post
arrival by some opportunistic Jesuits hence the purgatory view in the notice to
which you refer.

Freemasonry

Is Freemasonry a religion or just a
secret (social) club for the boys?

A:
Freemasonry is a religion. There are two branches of
it: the York
rite and the Scottish rite. Some lodges in Europe
are not in fellowship with English speaking lodges. There are up to
thirty-three levels with various other areas.

There
are two lodges the Red Lodge and the Blue Lodge. The Blue lodge is the common
lodge of fellowship and many people do not enter the Red Lodge at all. The Red
Lodge is a hierarchy of secrets and the higher one goes the more secrets you
are told. It is a religion at the higher levels. There are many books written
on the subject.

Mithrasism

I have been reading lately about the
Cosmic Mysteries of Mithras and also about a few other religious systems. I am
finding that there seems to be a pattern in religion which has some
similarities.Could
you tell me why some of these things are so much alike in several religions?

A:
They have their origin in the sun cults. Mithraism was the private all male
form of the sun cults as sol invictus Mithra. The public
form was sol invictus Elagabal. Women
took part in the cults in the forms of the Mysteries of Isis and also of Attis
and Adonis. Much of these were associated with the Assyro-Babylonian, which
also spread via paganism as shamanism.

I have heard that Ellen G. White made
false prophecies and I was wondering if this is this true and what they are? The reason I ask is because I have some very dear
friends in the Seventh Day Adventist church. I have attended their services
before and although I don't agree with all their teachings I found nothing that
would lead me to believe they are a cult. Also what is this about Michael the
Arch Angel being Jesus this is something I heard in passing once in their
service but not something which they dwelt on. Also I am aware of the false
prophecies coming out of the Millerite movement of the mid 1800's this is not
what I am talking about.

Many
of them still believe that Christ was Michael. They were undermined by the
Trinitarians of the RC system with families planted in the church. They lost
the true faith and understanding of the nature of God. Now they have millions
who think they were always Trinitarians. Ellen G White was a false prophetess.
She made serious errors in the millennial system because she was trying to
produce a vegetarian end time cosmology and she had many serious Scriptures to
overcome or ignore.

In an answer to a question regarding the
calf you talked about the crescent moon and the ‘finger of Ashirat.’ Is this a
beckoning finger for moon worshippers at the waning moon as seen in the sky at
the time of the crescent or what is the usage? The crescent is on flags and is
a very common symbol everywhere today. Why is that?

A: The
Finger of Ashirat is an ancient part of the Assyro-Babylonian system of worship
and time sequences. That system entered Egypt in the Mysteries of Osiris,
Isis and Horus who are analogous to the Baal-Easter system. It is a reference
to the crescent moon, and the crescent was seen to be a symbol of the goddess,
Ashirat or Istar. It was like a finger, the crescent being the nail of the
finger, beckoning the servants of Easter or Ashirat to service. It was in
affect used as a determining date for deadlines and discipline, as we will see
from the following concerning the finger of Ashirat.

It
is fairly conclusive evidence also for the crescent, as used in the Middle East and in the observation system of the Jews,
being derived from the pagan system after the fall of the Temple. Look now at the quote. From The Crescent and the Bull by Erich
Zehren, page 190. Tell Ta’annek was unearthed in 1901 under the direction of
Ernst Sellin. Certain cuneiform inscriptions were unearthed, including letters
to the King of Taanak, one Ishtarjashar.

A
passage from an Egyptian General reads:

“All
that thou hearest write to me from thence, that I may understand it. If the finger of Ashirat show itself, I would wish to take heed of
it and obey. And do thou report unto me a sign and the matter thereof.”

“How
does Ashirat SHOW her finger? Ashirat is analogous to Ishtar and Inanna and her
Finger could only be looked for in the sky, where a ‘finger’ may be considered
visible in the shape of the crescent moon towards the end of the month. The
Egyptian general’s letter, accordingly, indicated a date. When the crescent
moon approaches Venus he will expect a report.” “This communication, then, is a
perfectly ordinary request for action by a certain time.”

“This
letter is from the middle of the second millennium BCE, about half way between
Abraham and Moses”, page 191. From this we see that most of the world is tied
into the Babylonian mysteries in their religious system even today.

Do you know where the concept of Mother
Goose and the golden egg came from? Are they harmless children's stories or do
they have other meanings.

A:
The association of Geese and Immortality and the Mother Goddess comes from
ancient Egypt.
The pharaoh or king was not free to do things as we might suppose with kings.
Every aspect of their day was regulated even the hours they might have sex. In
like manner they could only eat veal and goose (Frazer, The Golden Bough, iii, 13).

When
a Pharaoh died geese were sacrificed. Each pharaoh was considered Osiris as
were the normal people in the cult of the dead and the person who died was
termed Osiris so and so. The Mother Goddess Nut was the mother of Osiris. Thus
the association is made. The goddesses Isis and Nephthys were present as were
Anubis and Horus and the gods of the Egyptian legends gathered around the
corpse. The two female mourners were there to represent the goddesses.

Frazer
states the geese were slaughtered at the funeral (his citation is misplaced at vi, 15). Osiris was the god of the resurrection in the same
way Attis was also associated with this in the West and Adonis in the East.
This dying god of vegetation was somehow associated from this practice with the
Shrove at Shrovetide and the Shrovetide bear in Europe.
The straw of the shrove was used to make the geese lay more eggs as a fertility
symbol (ibid viii, 326).

Variations
on this theme are then taken over the years to result in the Mother goddess and
the goose symbol. The Swan was also sacred to Apollo and has a similar
connotation in Europe being the same family as
the goose.

A:
In Assyriology, this is the list where the Assyrian functionaries gave their
name to a specific year of office. Thus, the list of names is equivalent to the
list of dates calculated from them.

When reading through the account of Gideon in Judges 7
and 8 might Oreb and Zeeb be a representation of the 2 fallen cherbuim? Is
there something in the meaning of their names that gives us an indication of who or what they might represent?

A: Oreb (SHD
6157) “'arob” is derived from the root word for mosquito and hence “to swarm”
and thus is applied to various flies or a swarm. Thus, a prince of Oreb can be
deduced as a Lord of the Flies, which was also the God of Ekron.

Is there any connection between religion
and the Mardi Gras? There seems to be a connection
when I hear of the observance of days like, Fat Tuesday. Carnivals in general,
seem to be associated with religious observances. During January, there is
another celebration called Winter Carnival, and then there is the ever-popular
Easter Parade.

A:
Yes, There is a connection between the Mardi Gras and
religion. It is the ancient carnival associated with the Shrove. The Fat
Tuesday comes from the ancient Shrove Tuesday. Originally Ash Wednesday had
nothing to do with the Lenten Festival. It was the mourning for the shrove,
which was burnt and the ashes represent the burnt Shrove.

The
title of Ash Wednesday is the caput
jejunii. There is a liturgical difference between the caput jejunii and the
"initium quadragesimae" the title of the first Sunday in Lent.

Originally
when the Easter system was introduced, the festival of the dying god began the
36 day fast on the Monday after the first Sunday in Lent (ERE, art ‘Shrove-Tide, Shrove Tuesday’, xi, 477). After the time of
Gregory I called the Great, and the establishment of the Holy
Roman Empire, Ash Wednesday became the first of the four
supplementary fast days with the title "caput jejunii." The week of
this period relates to the Carnival or Mardi Gras. The
shrove system related to and still relates to the week of the Carnival and the
term "Carniprivium" is given to Quinquagesima Sunday.

The
customs practiced in Scotland show the links with the "Bacchanalian
customs of Shrove tide with the Saturnalian licence of Christmas" (ERE, p.478). Originally Ash Wednesday
was the mourning for the dying God and the death of the shrove at carnival.

Frazer
has extensive notation on the custom in The
Golden Bough at iv. 220-221, and 226ff. It is or was until this
century carried on throughout Europe. It was
not an original Christian custom and takes its origins from the pagan customs
that were taken on with the Easter system in the second century and which were
not fully harmonised until the beginning of the seventh with Gregory.

Ash
Wednesday has nothing to do with the Bible system. It was originally the
memorial of the death of the Bacchanalian shrove. Thus the Carnival is the Last
day of the Shrove and Fat Tuesday is the last day before the Shrove is burnt on
Ash Wednesday, which has no Christian function or purpose.

At children's birthday parties and even
some adult parties such as baby showers, the pinata seems to be used more and
more to add to the entertainment. This word does not appear in my dictionary.
Do you know the origin of this game?

A:
Originally the Pinata was made of a figure of a mermaid although it is not
always a mermaid now. Sometimes it is a six-pointed star. This star of the god
is derived from the same source as the mermaid. The Mermaid is the symbol of
the goddess Deceto or Ceto or Kato who is Atargatis associated with the Philistines
and the cult of Dagon as well as the Baal-Easter system.

The
fish was sacred to Atargtis or Derceto as was the dove. The practice of
collecting water for the Temple
from her pools was derived from this cult and hence holy water is derived from the
Bal-Easter system. This is also the origin of eating fish on Friday being the
day of the death of the god either Attis or Adonis or Osiris depending upon
area.

The
mermaid was beaten with sticks to break the pinata or parcel of seeds, which
she had in order that the seeds would fall to the earth and so reproduce. That
is why the pinata has sweets in them representing the seeds.

In
ancient times they placed humans in skins and beat them. Often the rites were
involved with human sacrifice. The Bacchanalian shrove is derived from this
practice as is Ash Wednesday being originally nothing to do with Lent but
rather the burning of the Shrove from the week prior and which died on Shrove
Tuesday. The Shrovetide bear was beaten also in Europe
on this day.

I recently met someone who told me about
this "religion". It is called Tantra. I went and looked at the
website. What I gather from talking to this person and the website itself, this
is the belief in finding a spiritualconnection in sexual relations and
desire. I believe they teach that one can find complete satisfaction in
this...meaning sexually and spiritually. But doesn't this go completely against
what God tell us?

A:
Yes it does. Tantric Yoga follows this line of reasoning. It is not new. Sexual
relations have been the basis of the sun cults and mysteries for millennia. It
underpins all of the Baal-Easter system as it is a perversion of the fifth
commandment and the family structure.

I am interested in know how and where I
can find a representation (image or drawing) of the zoroastrian spirit Ahriman
(if there is one anywhere).

A:
Yes this is a not an easy problem. There is a reasonably early carving of
Ahriman being trampled under foot by Ahura Mazda or Ohrmazd. It is in the
"Iranian Valley of the Kings" Naqsh-i Rustam.

It
is a presentation of the King Ardashir I (224-241 CE) being presented with the
ring of sovereignty by Ohrmazd. In the earlier Achaemenid seals God was never
shown in human form and the presentation of the powers of the universe were
seen as forces and thus portrayed by symbols. There is a photo of the Ardashir
relief in the work Mythology An Illustrated Encyclopaedia, Black Cat, on p. 43.

The
later portrayal has Ahriman in human form with a serpent headdress. There has
been some recent archaeology concerning Ardashir and his reliefs in Iran and thus Oxford and Cambridge should have
some better up to date photos of the later portrayals of Ahriman and Ahura
Mazda.

Christian Mystical Doctrines

What is your perspective on the
Preterist doctrines which seem to be coming in vogue of late? I do not wish to
shape your answer, but I would view these notions that Christ returned at 70 AD
as a revisionist heresy which has no basis in Scripture. What is your
view?

A:
Assuming you mean here the Preterist notion that Christ has returned, or is
active on the planet, the argument that he
returned at 70 CE is an absurd version of this. The Jehovah’s Witnesses seem to
have another bizarre version of it as well from 1914.

The
most disturbing of all is the notion that Christ is ruling as the Roman
Catholic Church, and has been since it was established. This is held to be the
millennium of Revelation 20, even though it is well over that. If the Holy Roman Empire of 590-1850 (or 1260 years) was the Kingdom of God on earth, it
would be better to choose death.

Christ
says that if they tell you they are the Messiah, or tell you that He is here or
there, do not believe them (Mk. 13:21). We will all see him arriving on the
clouds in great power and glory and we will be gathered together (Mk. 13:26-27). When He gets here we will
see this planet run for a thousand years according to God’s Law, and people are
going to learn obedience by cause and effect under Deuteronomy 28 (see The Blessings and the Curses (No.
75)The
Millennium and the Rapture (No. 95)).

In books such as the Holy Blood and the
Holy Grail and also Bloodline of the Holy Grail some very important and
interesting points are raised relating to the New Testament and religion as it
exists in general. Can you explain to me why in general terms their ideas and
concepts are wrong and yet you believe that your version of religious history
is right?

A:
Why should we believe any of it? What makes the Bible so important? What about
the Gita and other texts? Let us start from the beginning. God created the
heavens and the earth. He created mankind. His creation has purpose. If it has
no purpose then God acts from caprice. One could probably argue that we are
simply an aesthetic decoration in the Milky Way galaxy. We do not believe that
and the ancients did not believe that either.

God
allegedly has a purpose for mankind. That purpose involves judgment and the
life after death. If we are to be judged we must be judged against a rational
standard. That must be consistent and unchanging in its application and rule.
God is immutable and Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.

God
has a moral and ethical obligation to reveal His will and the standard against
which we are to be judged. Otherwise he is arbitrary and in respect of persons.
Also the law must be based on some other criteria than the fact that he issued
it from whim. If He issued it from whim he is simply another tyrant.

Of
all the records we have, the Bible is the most consistent and the one that has
been backed by historical record and positive miraculous activity. God revealed
His will through His servants the prophets. We have evidence of that
intervention and divine prophecy coming to fruition.

The
rule of the Bible is that all prophecy must be according to the Law and the
Testimony (Isa. 8:20). All
works of the Bible have been claimed as prophecy and acknowledged as a divine
works by the body of Israel
and the priesthood. This has extended to all the churches even those who reject
the Law of God in its application today.

Books
such as the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail do not claim to speak for God and do
not follow the law and the Testimony. Thus they lack basic credentials to be
considered inspired or God breathed as the apostles of the NT explain the OT
and Scripture generally.

In
reading works such as these one should weigh each one for consistency with the
Bible record and then be forced to reject them
because they are not only at variance but on such matters that are critical to
any understanding of the plan of God. This standard can be applied to the Koran
as well as the other works.

When
the standard is applied to what the Koran or Qur'an actually says, as opposed
to what Muslim clerics claim it says we find no variance with the text of the
Bible that renders it false. However, were we to follow what modern Islam
claims for it, we would be seriously in error.

Thus
we are forced to evaluate all writings by what is claimed for them by the
oracles themselves and by the witnesses and scribes and also by the
interpretation and consistency of the works among the body of Scripture as
revealed by God to the prophets. In the same way anything we write must also be
according to the Law and to the Testimony or there is no light in us.

That
is why all items published by our people are scrutinised by the body of the
church and corrected if such inconsistency is found to be evident. If you find
a text of our people that is at variance with the Law of God and the Testimony
of Jesus Christ and the prophets please draw that to our attention and we will
correct it, or explain why it is not incorrect. We will provide explanation
assuming of course the person is raising a rational objection.

What is the evidence that the tomb found
in the 9th century at Santiago de Compostela, in northwest Spain, (Galicia) was,
as claimed, the tomb of St. James?

A:
James, bishop of Jerusalem
and brother of Christ was martyred in 63 CE and was succeeded by his cousin
Symeon the son of Maria and Clophas. The likelihood of the Desposyni allowing
his carcass to be removed to Galicia
is zero.

James
was patron saint of Galicia
and it was under his banner that the people of Spain began to drive back the
Muslims. The order of St James of Compostella dates from a later date and it
was not in fact even the original seat of the order. The order was in two
places originally in Leon of Leon and Ucles of Castille.

The
knights of Santiago
had possessions in both of those kingdoms but Ferdinand II of Castile and Alphonse
VIII of Castile
in bestowing the order set the conditions that the seats of the order should be
in their respective states. The long dispute ended in 1230 when Ferdinand III
united both crowns. Then Ucles of Cuenca was regarded as the headquarters.

The
shrine of St James was protected by them. The necessity of developing shrines
of patron saints and the religious fervour in the wars in Spain developed
their own momentum for having a relic or two and the body of what was the
patron saint of Spain
was a logical production.

I'm interested in what you have to say
about DNA Mapping. I have read the comments of scientists from many books, too
numerous to go into here. This sums up my impression
of all that:And now WE know......so watch out God! It looks like man uses God only
when it's useful to do so.

A:
There was only one race the human race and now we can demonstrate that fact
perfectly. The monster of racism may be put to rest only to be replaced by a
more horrific threat to human freedom. The genetic defects of families and
tribes can be isolated and even normal human families destroyed as a concept.

The
mapping of the human genome will bring Genesis to life. The statement they will
be as elohim now is clear. That is why Babel
was destroyed and the languages were confounded.

When looking at a list of Church Fathers
I noticed Hermes, who is this individual and what did he believe and/or teach?

A:
The primary Hermes is not a church father as such. He is mentioned by the Ante
Nicene Fathers in passing because of his views. He is called Hermes
Trismegistus. He was held to have been the fifth Hermes or Mercury that slew
Argus and on that account he fled into Egypt. The Egyptians call him Thoth
and name their first month after him, which equates to September.

He
built the town of Hermopolis
and is worshipped at Phenae. He was a monotheist teaching in Egypt the
unnameable god. He is mentioned in the ANF
at vols 1:289; VII: 15, 210, 215. The second Hermes
was a Messalian or Eustathian. Epiphanius says the sect originated in the time
of Constance but Theodoret says they started
in the days of Valentian.

The
Post Nicene Fathers Series II vol XIV at pp. 240 ff has a note about the sect.
There was a catacomb of Hermes excavated a century ago on the Via Salaria Vetus
beyond Porta Pinciana (CE vol. II, p. 419, 517). Little is known of him save
that he appears to have been a martyr about 119 CE. The Fourth Century Liberian
catalogue mentions him as being buried in the Cemetery of S. Basilla.
The fourth century subterranean basilica was raised above the tomb. Adrian I
(772-95) removed the body of Hermes to the city. The Christian origin of the
catacombs of Hermes and the remains of ss Peter and Hyacinth found there are
attributed to Guiseppe Marchi 21 March 1845 (CE, Vol. IX, p. 643).

Cults are often thought to have hidden
agendas and to use mind control to keep their members faithful. What is a cult?
Are they all necessarily as described above? If not how come 'cult' has this
tag?

A:
Cult is derived from Cultus and means to worship. The largest Christian cult is
the Roman Catholic Church. It has developed its pejorative meaning by
mainstream Christian systems applying it to smaller groups and denigrating them
for believing differently or refusing to follow the mainstream trend.

The
Holocaust was to exterminate all law keeping Bible believers from Europe this century. It almost succeeded. At present
there are some stranger things happening to destroy small groups. Some small
groups are also committing suicide.

A
group in Uganda
recently broke away from the Roman Catholic
Church and allegedly said it wanted to restore the Law of God. Then its members
were found locked and nailed into the church building and which was then set on
fire by its leaders. That was odd to say the
least.

Waco
was labelled as a whacky cult but we find now that some extra ordinary things
happened there that have troubled a great many Americans. Mainstream Christians
have killed smaller groups who disagree with them by the most bizarre and
terrible means over the centuries. Look at the book Sabbatarians in Transylvania (CCG Publishing 1998.)

Christianity
Creed

In previous questions you referred to
the “R Document.” Could you please explain a little more on what that is? Who
wrote it? About what the time frame? Is there a web
page or something that has a translated copy of it so we could read it?

A:
The R document is the earliest known copy of the creed of the church, from
which the Apostles Creed was constructed, or rather forged because it has
nothing to do with the apostles.

Herbert
Thurston reproduced the contents of it in his article in the Catholic Encyclopaedia article on the
creed. It shows clearly the church in Rome,
at least as late as the end of the second century, called itself the HolyChurch
and not the Catholic Church. It was Unitarian with a subordinate Christ and
believed in the Resurrection of the Dead. From the reconstructions of
Tertullian, the Holy Spirit was the power of God and not a person.

National Religious Systems

I read the comments on the Croatia
concentration camps and the Vatican.
I had great difficulty not thinking about the events. Granted I am a German
Catholic by birth but the gross breach of the Second Great Commandment is
beyond belief. Besides fasting and praying for the world's repentance, and
healing of the people, host and planet; and of course obeying the One True God
what else can one do?

A:
What is more horrifying is that there seems to be no real acknowledgment from
these people that they actually did anything wrong. We have evidence on oath in
courts of law under war crimes from these Franciscan priests. One admitted to
personally killing 44,000 people himself. Yet we have priests on world forums
still denying that it actually happened.

There
were almost 15000 concentration and extermination camps in Europe.
The Jews have done us no service with their portrayal of the system as being
simply a Jewish Holocaust.

The
aim was to get rid of every non Trinitarian and especially Sabbath-keeper from Europe. It was a combined effort of the Roman Catholic
and Lutheran systems. Up to 18 million people were murdered. It took the
combined effort of the Roman Catholic/Lutheran system in Europe
to do it. The first concentration camp was handed over by the SA to the LutheranChurch in December 1932. That is ten
years before the alleged 1942-45 Holocaust period.

This
is like the Truth and Reconciliation commission in South Africa. Without truth there
can be no reconciliation. Without Roman Catholicism acknowledging what they did
and where their system came from there can be no repentance.

This
is not simply the Holocaust over three years in Europe.
As you can see the extermination started in Africa
at the beginning of the century. However the Inquisitions started centuries
ago.

The
Last Inquisition was in the Papal States
between 1823 and 1946. 200,000 people were sentenced to death or the galleys.
1.5 million people were placed under constant
surveillance. There was a gallows at virtually every corner. People were tried
in Latin and they had no defence and did not know the substance of the charges
against them. The Jesuit historian the late Malachi Martin gives the details in
his work The Decline and Fall of the
Roman Church, pp. 250-254ff. When the people held the plebiscite as to
their remaining with the papal system or becoming part of the republic, of the
few left who were allowed the vote over 130, 000 voted to join the Republic and
only 3000 odd wished to remain.

The Trinitarian bishops and clergy last attempted mass
extermination in Rwanda
in 1994 where they organised, identified, and paid to have over 900,000 people
killed and perhaps as many as double that figure.

We
have to return to the Living God in prayer and fasting and repent of our sins
and of our heresies and our idolatry. We have to get the First Great
Commandment of the Law straight before we can proceed in the Second Great
Commandment in details but before we can get the First Great Commandment right
we have to love the truth and develop a genuine desire to love all men.

If
we do not love our neighbour whom we have seen how can we love God whom we have
not seen. You have taken the first step in the long
path to the restoration.

The Scots did not come from Scotland
originally. Where is the oldest known excavated site of their origins and
remains and how did they get to Scotland?

A:
The Scots have the same racial background as the Irish. This
of course means that the Scots were (are) Celts. Going one step back
from Spain
there seems to be a connection with Georgia in the Caucasus.

The
word Iberia (cf. the Latin Iberi) the country of the Iberi, comes from the
Greek word Iberes, which was used for the two people.
One was the people in Spain
and the other Iberians, who were an Asiatic people near the Caucasus.

The
Godelians were sons of Japheth but the name
Iberi appears to be a Greek form of the Semitic. The Bible calls the original
inhabitants of Spain Godelians from the sons of Godel. These Iberians are
considered to be the ancestors of the Basque.

Ancient
Iberia
in Asia was the area that approximates what is
now Georgia.
Iberian is also a Middle English name for the Basque language also (see Oxford Universal Dictionary).

The
furthest point east we have found their remains is in the area of Urumqi in the Tien Shan in the Uygur Autonomous
Region (Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu) of North Western China.

Their
mummies were found with their dress and material intact. They were wearing the
blue and brown hunting tartans even then and the old plaid tartans with the
black and the red and white cross-checked stripes were all present. The men
were up to six foot six inches in height and the women were up to six feet in
height. They were all blond haired (and blue eyed?).

A
textile expert has written a work titled the Mummies of Urumqi. It covers the aspects of the clothing and has
photos of the mummies. The Chinese found them and sat on the discovery for a
long time until a visitor was allowed to stumble on them by some Chinese
academics who wanted the discoveries given some publicity.

Is there a difference between Celts and
Hyperborean Celts? I've heard both terms used but don't understand if they are
one and the same or two different groups.

A:
The term was used by the Greeks to refer to the Celts who were in the north or
"above the North (e.g. Wind)." They were said to live on an island in
the north and thus we are dealing with Britain.

These
Celts were known to the Greeks who devised Philosophy as a way of liberating
themselves from this wheel of rebirth the Celts had burdened the world with in
the First Millennium BCE.

What do you know about the Gaia theory?
Is it true? What is your opinion? Are there any artworks or poems or anything
from religions that foretold the occurrence of this concept?

A:
The Gaia hypothesis is developed philosophically from Parmenides and the
structure of the one. Plato develops this and the structure is examined in Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides.

The
Mother Goddess or Earth Mother theory is a pantheist structure, which finds its
roots in animistic shamanism. It is now being developed into Process Theology
along the KyotoSchool as formed under Hartsehorne and
Whitehead.

The
variants on New Age Theology seek to develop it as an opposing theory to the
Creation under a Father figure as God. The aim is to make the divine pantheist
and immanent. It is a very old theory based on error both philosophical and
theological. It forms now in theories of the structure of the universe from the
Big Bang as expounded say by Hawking and perhaps Penrose.

What does the word Tara
mean in connection to religion?

A:
The name Tara is Irish and refers to the
Sacred Hill of Tara in Ireland
where the stone said to be Jacob's pillar stone from Bethel was brought via Egypt and Spain to Ireland ca 700
BCE and placed there. The word tara (SHD 8652) as a doorkeeper is also derived from this
sense.

The
Kings were crowned on it from that time. The stone was held to have been
removed there and taken to Scone in Scotland by
Fergus when he established the Scottish monarchy. The dates given are
fictitious. It was taken to Westminster Abbey by Edward I in 1297.

All
the kings and Queens of England have
been crowned on it since that time. It is held to mark the true Kings of
Israel. Recently it was returned to Scotland.

Tara
is the name of the ancient seat of the kings of Ireland. It comes from the Chaldean
meaning a door and hence a palace: hence gate or mouth. Thus it is the site of
the kings. Both words are used in these senses in the Bible

Tara
also refers to an eastern system of the goddess Tara, which is covered in the
work by Cox, Mysticism, CCG, 2001.

What is the philosophical significance
of chaos theory to science and religion?

A:
Chaos theory is based on the premise that there is no defined order in the
universe. The universe reacts rather than is influenced by any order. Undefined
order is not chaotic, it is simply undefined. This theory has profound
implications for religion as it means there is no God to order the structure.
Thus there is not purpose to the structure.

From
this we get a relative morality. What ever is expedient is ethical. There are
no moral absolutes. With Science we have a series of laws, which are based on
order. The Laws of Thermodynamics are prime in this
regard.

The
Philosophy of Causation is also concerned with these aspects. Causation is
Singularist as is shown from Creation ibid. Thus it is not supervenient and
certainly not chaotic. The decay of K Mesons would indicate that this is an
incorrect theory. See also Creation (ibid.). Phase space volume selection at 10
to 10 to 123 also opposes it (ibid.). It is written: Only a fool says in his
heart there is no God.

What is the “Toronto Blessing” and where did it originate?

A:
It originated in TorontoCanada.
People are subjected to an hysterical mindset in their
services and they are touched on the head and fall down in ecstatic states or
variations on the theme. It is a charismatic Pentecostal doctrine associated
with the other doctrines of uttering gibberish and all that entails.

What do you think of the ancient Sumerian
text that talked about a flood and “The tablet describes a huge boat commanded
by a king named Ziusudra, who was preserving vegetation and the seed of
humankind”? Do you think that maybe God commanded someone else to build a boat
like Noah? Also is there any ancient text in Hebrew that has been found? If
yes, is that true that the name of God is written YHWH?

A:
Yes, the text is very interesting. Ziusudra is the Sumerian form of the name.
“The Epic of Gilgamesh” gives the Mesopotamian form: “Utnapishtim”
(termed the faraway). The Greek form was “Xisouthros.” They are all versions of
the story of Noah.

In
“The Epic of Gilgamesh” they have him praying to Sin, the moon god. This is the
origin of the Anglo Saxon word for sin. (Look at the paper The Golden Calf (No. 222).) This work has
the most detail.) The dimensions of the ark are stylised. In “The Epic of
Gilgamesh” the families of the workers are taken aboard as well.

In
the Sumerian text, of which you speak, Ziusudra is prostrating himself before
Anu and Enlil, the Sumerian deities. This text also gives the creation epic and
the creation of the “blackheaded people” (a term for the Babylonians and also
for the Chinese in their texts, and here meaning the world populace as a whole)
and preceded the creation of the animals. The flood was seven days and swept
over the five cult centres of the earth, which had been placed under the gods
by the council of the gods in heaven.

The
accounts are more or less stylised versions of the flood written around their
ancient deities. Nevertheless, they show a detailed concept of the council of
the elohim and the similarity of the flood story and purpose. They are versions
of the same story of Noah. The Hebrew version is not YHWH but YHVH. There was
no w in the Hebrew. Vav is pronounced as a quiescent w but is written V. The
early texts were without vowels. Thus YHVH is the correct form of the text. We
have the “Lachish Ostracon,” which is from the time of Jeremiah. The modern
translations by Albright render it as Yahweh. The Elephantine texts translated
by Ginsberg show the root form was not Yah (written Jah in English) but Yaho
and so the text is Yahovah and not Yahweh. It is written YHVH in classical
Hebrew. The documents are all in the texts by James B Pritchard The Ancient Near East..., Princeton,
1958.